Dates!
NOVEMBER 27-28 "10.5: Apocalypse"
(9-11 p.m. both nights)

Ruggedly handsome actor Carlos Bernard has never faced terrorists or made the kind of life and death decisions his character Tony Almeida regularly makes on the suspense show 24, but as it turns out, all that covert work may be in his blood after all. "My dad and my uncle were both in counter-intelligence, so I got a lot of info that way, reveals Bernard during a break on the series. "My uncle, who has since passed away, was actually on the ground floor of the CIA, but was in the OS, which led into the CIA. My father was in counter-intelligence but didn't go into the CIA. It let me know what that world was really like to work in, which really helped me when we shot the pilot, to help build the character.

Girls at the Plaza

Before New York's famed Plaza Hotel closed Saturday for renovation and conversion to condos, a mother-daughter group from Houston headed to the Big Apple for a few days to sample the end of an era.
Sharon Adams and daughter Taylor, Shelli Lindley and daughter Jenna, Karen Maston and daughters Kelsey and Cody, and Claire Baker and daughter Alice were in the Oak Bar when Fox's 24 star Carlos Bernard ambled in. The accommodating actor joined the middle school students for sodas and a photo op. The moms were green with envy.

The moms were green with envy.